NATION DATELINES

Compiled from Examiner wire reports

Published 4:00 am, Friday, May 26, 1995

AH: One-third of babies not carried to term Washington Of the 6.5 million pregnancies in the United States in 1992, some 2.4 million ended in abortions, miscarriages and stillbirths, the federal government has reported.

The National Center for Health Statistics said Thursday the abortion rate dropped by 12 percent from 1980 to 1992, partly due to a drop in the number of women in their late teens and 20s, when abortion rates are highest.

In addition to 1.5 million abortions in 1992, there were 900,000 miscarriages and stillbirths, the center said. Some 4.1 million babies were born that year.